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1890 Shahid Hussein Suhrawardy, educationist, writer, art-critic and diplomat, was born in Kolkata.
Google | 1896 Ranadaprasad Saha better known as RP Saha (1896-1971), entrepreneur, philanthropist and patron of learning, was born in Kachhur in Savar.
Google | 1946 Government Asheq Mahmud College was established in Jamalpur by a landlord named Ashed Mahmud.
Google | 1958 President Iskandar Mirza imposes martial law all over Pakistan, with army commander in chief General Mohammad Ayub Khan taking over as Chief Martial Law Administrator. Parliament is dissolved, the constitution is abrogated, political parties are banned and leading politicians are hauled away to prison.
Google | 1958 General Ayub Khan ousts Iskandar Mirza, sends him into exile in London and takes over as President in addition to his position as Chief Martial Law Administrator.
Google | 1965 Shahid Hussein Suhrawardy, educationist, writer, art-critic and diplomat, died unmarried in Karachi.
Google | 1971 Ranadaprasad Saha better known as RP Saha (1896-1971), entrepreneur, philanthropist and patron of learning, was killed by the Pakistani occupation army.
Google | 1971 Soviet Navy deploys group of ships armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to counter USS Enterprise.
Google | 1973 Shanti Bahini (Peace Force), was formed by Jyotindra Larma; initially as the Gana Mukti Fauj (People's Liberation Army) and later renamed to Shanti Bahini.
Google | 1973 The government has issued orders to immediately deploy 'sufficient number' of Rakkhi Bahini personnel at over 150 thana headquarters of the country in order to intensify drive against miscreants engaged in anti-social activities.
Google | 1976 Col Abu Taher, military officer, a sector commander in the war of liberation, radical activist, was executed at 4:30am at the Dhaka Central Jail.
Google | 1979 Government Asheq Mahmud College in Jamalpur was nationalised by the government of Bangladesh.
Google | 1981 The King of Belgium Baudouin I with the Queen arrives in Dhaka for a State visit.
Google | 1983 Manabendra Narayan Larma (1941-1983), lawyer and politician, propounder of Jumia nationalism and founder of Parbatya Chattagram Jana-Samhati Samiti, was killed by the rival group.
Google | 1986 Double-decker ferry sank in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200.
Google | 1996 Shanti Bahini, the armed wing of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), guerrillas killed 30 Bengali-speaking settlers in the southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Google | 1997 Priti Kumar Chakma forms New Chittagong Hill Tracts Council (NCHTC); its primary objective is to achieve total autonomy for the Chittagong region.
Google | 1998 According to the provision of the Chittagong Accord, the government forms a Ministry for Chittagong Affairs and appoints Kalpa Ranjan Chakma as Minister.
Google | 2000 Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Limited (BFICL), a non-banking finance company, commenced business.
Google | 2000 A ferry collided with another ferry ship and sank on the Meghna River in southeastern Bangladesh killing at least 178 people.
Google | 2001 Polythene bags were declared banned in Dhaka.
Google | 2002 The government introduces in the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) a bill seeking to repeal the controversial Public Safety (Special Provisions) Act, 2000. However, according to the provisions of the bill, all the ongoing cases filed under the law would continue till their disposal unless the government withdraws them.
Google | 2002 A ferry on the Meghna River capsized with some 400 passengers traveling from Dhaka to southern Patuakhali. Early reports had only 100 survivors. The ferry was raised and the death toll increased to 370.
Google | 2002 Some 200 people were feared dead after 19 boats disappeared in a storm off Bangladesh.
Google | 2003 In northeastern Bangladesh a river boat carrying more than 170 people capsized, killing 79 people, including 49 children.
Google | 2003 A ferry with an estimated 750 passengers sank at the confluence of the Padma, Meghna and Dakatia rivers about 40 miles south of the capital, Dhaka. Some 220 survivors were counted.
Google | 2003 Passanger launch M.L. Nasrin sank near Chandpur leaving more than 800 passengers dead; the vessel, with a capacity of 294, was reportedly carrying nearly 1,000 passengers.
Google | 2004 The country's first flyover at Mohakhali, 1.01 km long Mohakhali flyover opens.
Google | 2005 Passanger launch M.L. Prince of Patuakhali was caught in a nor'wester and capsised near Galachipa with more than 200 passengers on board; at least half of them either died or went missing.
Google | 2005 At least 70 people were missing after a ferry capsized in the Bay of Bengal while sailing to Chittagong port in Bangladesh from a nearby island.
Google | 2008 A launch carrying nearly 150 passengers was caught in a nor-wester and capsized in Ghorautra river in Nikli, Kishoreganj killing 42 people.
Google | 2008 Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Prof Ole Danbolt Mjos arrives in Dhaka on a six-day visit.
Google | 2009 A ferry boat sank after colliding with a larger ferry on the Titas River, killing 10 women and children.
Google | 2010 At least 37 people died from drowning when a passenger motorboat sank after a head-on collision with a cargo boat in the Dhanu river in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj.
Google | 2011 Bangladesh University of Textile (BUT), the only university of its kind and the 34th public university in the country, was inaugurated at its Tejgaon campus.
Google | 2012 Bangladesh's state owned mobile network, Teletalk has launched the country's first 3G network.
Google | 2013 At least two people died and dozens were rescued after the ML Sarash passenger ferry collided with another ship and capsized on the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, dumping as many as 100 people into the water.
Google | 2014 M.V. Pinak ferry, licensed at 85 capacity, capsized in the Padma river southwest of Dhaka with about 200 passengers on board. About 100 people were rescued with 19 bodies recovered and at least 125 presumed dead.
Google | 2015 A trawler carrying up to 200 passengers sank in the River Payra in southern Bangladesh. Most people were rescued or swam ashore. At least five people died and two were missing.
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